As a business professional on the go, it?s important that you ensure the work you do on your netbook or notebook is secure and protected. And with a busy lifestyle, there?s no time for the hassle and complexity of a traditional backup solution, and no room to carry an external hard drive and cables with you. Developed with this in mind, the Lexar Echo MX backup drive is an easy-to-use, ultra-portable drive with capacity meter, which provides a convenient way to quickly and automatically back up and protect your files on the go.

Automatically and Securely Back Up Files

Easy-to-Use, Automatic Backup Solution. Designed for netbook and notebook users, the Lexar Echo MX is a high-capacity, high-performance, flash-based backup drive that easily plugs into your system?s USB port to provide automatic backup of your files. Built-in Lexar Echo backup software activates as soon as it?s plugged in, to securely and automatically protect files with 128-bit AES encryption. The drive also performs ongoing backups to any files in use, and restores previously saved versions of a file?providing peace of mind that your data is safe. What?s more, the software works across platforms with one seamless interface, allowing you to easily back up or restore files on either a PC or a Mac system.

Quickly Back Up and Store More. The high-performance Lexar Echo MX backup drive comes in a range of high-capacity options?from 8GB to 128GB?so you can back up and protect large volumes of files and data on the go. And higher capacities offer higher performance?allowing you to quickly transfer large volumes of data with speeds up to 30MB/s read and 17MB/s write. This means you can quickly protect and store more of the files that matter?great for your mobile lifestyle.

Check Available Storage Space at a Glance. In addition to its compact design with an integrated sleeve cap that reveals the USB connector, the Lexar Echo MX backup drive sports an easy-to-read, always-on capacity meter that lets you determine your available backup space at a glance, and maintains the reading even when disconnected?for ultimate convenience.

Lexar Performance, Quality, Compatibility, and Reliability. All Lexar memory card, card reader, and USB flash drive product designs undergo extensive testing in the Lexar Quality Labs, facilities with more than 800 digital devices, to ensure performance, quality, compatibility, and reliability. This provides customers with a high level of confidence when using Lexar products to capture, manage, move, and store the memories that matter.

Pros: In my case the biggest "pro" was a good price per drive. I wanted to have a number of drives which would be inexpensive enough to lend out without concern if they were lost, yet with enough storage to hold AV size files. This fit the bill.

Cons: The Lexar 16 GB (15 GiB) Echo MX flash drives are less special performance wise. Sequential read performance seems to be ~28 MB/s which is good for USB 2.0. Of course, sequential write performance is a lot less special at maybe 6 to 7 MB/s.

Other Comments: Characterizing this as a "Backup Drive" seems to me to be only market-speak hyperbole. You can certainly back files up to this drive, but it's going to take a noticeably long time to store anything of size. But if you don't mind waiting or you expect to read from the drive most of the time and only occasionally fill the drive up with archived files, then I feel it's currently a reasonably priced option. I have no problem recommending this with the reservations described above.

Pros: It did everything the description said it would do. Just plug it in and it does it's job. Of course, I've yet to access anything I've put on it so I'll have to just trust that it's on there! It was also very fast!

Cons: None.

Other Comments: I bought two of these as I have a lot on my computer. Now I will be deleting some of what I have since I have a backup!

Pros: I needed a 32 GB to capture information on my PC and the ones at the stores at town were too expensive, and I found a good deal so I bought 2 Thanks for being at the right place at the right time.

Pros: This is an exceptionally inexpensive Backup Drive that
gives that extra room to not lose programs, photos, etc.;
It ships faster than anything I've ever purchased on Amazon.com
and the packaging is kept to the barest of plastic.
Excellent deal = money-wise, fast shipping, great value for your buck!!

Cons: I AM NOT TOO TECHY AND CAN'T SEEM TO SET UP CORRECTLY AND ALTHOUGH IT DOES COPY SOME FILES I CAN'T GET IT TO COPY WHAT I WANT AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO RESET PARAMETERS. EG. IT COPIES A KINDLE FILE BUT CAN'T GET TO COPY DOCUMENT FILE